Crossword Answers For: Thursday, December 20, 2018

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Goes out => EBBS
5 Across: Car ad fig. => MSRP
9 Across: Poppy extract => OPIUM
14 Across: Stretched to the max => TAUT
15 Across: Cambodian cash => RIEL
16 Across: Italian grandma => NONNA
17 Across: West Coast gas acronym => ARCO
18 Across: Violation of trust => INFIDELITY
20 Across: Kipling's Rikki-__-Tavi => TIKKI
22 Across: __ Dane => GREAT
23 Across: Familia member => TIA
24 Across: Really get to => NETTLE
26 Across: Beeps and peeps => NOISES
28 Across: Fluffy neckwear => BOA
30 Across: Acts charitably => DOESGOOD
32 Across: Ararat lander => ARK
33 Across: __ be married, / My grave is like to be my wedding bed: Juliet => IFHE
34 Across: Potentially offensive, briefly => NOTPC
38 Across: Bumbling one => BEE
39 Across: MDX ÷ X => CLI
40 Across: Unlock, in verse => OPE
42 Across: Bit of soccer support => OLE
43 Across: Feature of some Gene Autry songs => YODEL
45 Across: Pasternak heroine => LARA
47 Across: An everyday spud is a commentator, e.g. => PUN
48 Across: Super Soaker, e.g. => WATERGUN
51 Across: It starts in Mar. => DST
52 Across: Distressed damsel's cry => SAVEME
55 Across: Do business with => SELLTO
57 Across: Takeout menu general => TSO
58 Across: Moisten => BEDEW
60 Across: Tops off => FILLS
63 Across: Too high for people to catch? => ULTRASONIC
66 Across: Meh => BLAH
67 Across: Jacobi of Murder on the Orient Express (2017) => DEREK
68 Across: UNC Chapel __ => HILL
69 Across: Shakespearean schemer => IAGO
70 Across: Nobel, for one => SWEDE
71 Across: Rights org. => ACLU
72 Across: 1990s-2010s slugging nickname => AROD

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Californie or Floride => ETAT
2 Down: Italian port => BARI
3 Down: Uncovered, in a way => BUCKNAKED
4 Down: Stir up => STOKE
5 Down: Hosp. test => MRI
6 Down: Grade-school formation => SINGLEFILE
7 Down: Browser button with a curved arrow icon => REFRESH
8 Down: Move in a tutu => PLIE
9 Down: Personal, as a talk => ONETOONE
10 Down: Party pro => POL
11 Down: Monogram ltrs. => INITS
12 Down: Loosen, as laces => UNTIE
13 Down: Uxmal inhabitants => MAYAS
19 Down: Five-O nickname => DANO
21 Down: __ be an honor! => ITD
25 Down: Work up a sweat => TOIL
27 Down: Altar words => IDO
28 Down: Treat with supreme care => BABY
29 Down: McFlurry flavor => OREO
31 Down: Political commentator who wrote Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball => GEORGEWILL
35 Down: Highest price, and what five Down answers have => TOPDOLLAR
36 Down: + => PLUS
37 Down: Lowest price => CENT
39 Down: Beach cookout => CLAMBAKE
41 Down: Songwriter with John => PAUL
44 Down: Girl in a pasture => EWE
46 Down: Poison in some whodunits => ARSENIC
49 Down: Tight ends? => TEES
50 Down: Viet Cong org. => NLF
52 Down: Small earrings => STUDS
53 Down: Heaps => ASLEW
54 Down: À __ santé! => VOTRE
56 Down: Calf neighbor => TIBIA
59 Down: Persian Gulf capital => DOHA
61 Down: Mar-a-__: Florida estate => LAGO
62 Down: Flip-flopped? => SHOD
64 Down: Rosy => RED
65 Down: Gulager of The Virginian => CLU

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This crossword has 40 across clues and 39 down clues. In total 79 clues are solved in the section above.
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